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New Phone Number

By Israel Policy Forum
Friday, January 27, 2012 - 11:07am

Please note that IPF's phone number has changed. We can now be reached at 212-354-1812. 

We will not stand for this

By Israel Policy Forum
Saturday, January 21, 2012 - 7:46pm

Israel Policy Forum is shocked and appalled by the column published in the Atlanta Jewish Times by its owner and publisher Andrew Adler calling for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “to give the go-ahead for U.S.-based Mossad agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel in order for the current vice president to take his place, and forcefully dictate that the United States policy includes its helping the Jewish state obl

Amb. Daniel C. Kurtzer on 'Reviving the Peace Process' (TRANSCRIPT)

By Israel Policy Forum
Friday, January 13, 2012 - 10:13am
In an ideal world, if we were writing this up as a scenario we would say let’s put this all on hold, and everyone stays away happily and nothing changes for the worse, and we pick it up perhaps when everyone is stronger. But status quos are not status quos and people know that. They either get better – or more commonly – they actually get worse because they are left neglected. I fear that this status quo, over the next 10 or 11 months if there isn’t some very significant policy activity, will deteriorate into violence.

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IPF comments on meeting between Presidents Abbas and Obama

June 1, 2009

Israel Policy Forum welcomes President Obama's declaration during his meeting with Palestinian Authority President Abbas that "time is of the essence" in reaching an agreement between Israelis and Palestinians.

IPF agrees completely with President Obama that "we can't continue with the drift" that has characterized Israeli-Palestinian talks, as well as American relations to those talks, for nearly a decade. This leads to "hopelessness," as the President said, on both sides. In addition, maintaining the status quo with Israel continuing its occupation of the West Bank will lead to Israel's rule over an Arab majority, a situation that will mean the end of Israel as a Jewish state or as a democracy.

IPF also welcomes President Obama's reiteration of his call for a halt to Israeli settlements in the West Bank, including "natural growth," and his emphasizing the importance of the Palestinians' "reducing the incitement and anti-Israel sentiments that are sometimes expressed in schools and mosques and in the public square, because all those things are impediments to peace."

President Obama's remarks during his recent meetings with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders demonstrate yet again the Obama administration's commitment to reaching agreements between Israel and its neighbors and the President's determination to lead this effort and remain engaged in it. These agreements cannot be realized without American presidential leadership, which IPF supports and applauds.

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